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Topics of the Week
The inability of the Fusion majority of Con.
gress to organize, and proceed to business, con
tinues to be the m"Mt prominent theme of dis
cussion T. , day is the end of the fourth week
of the sessi.m. and yet to all human preception,
there is no more .igns of an organization than
~ n the first day the members came together It
s a • a mot pertinent remark of a Democratic
member, that the country had heard, luring the
canvass which elected the majority of the (louse,
great deal about "American , rulinj America,"
but if we were t,) take tLe acts of tiise boas&hg
• Americans" since their arrival in Washington
As a ..riterion t.. l udge, it wo'iA be pretty plain
the most coniti.oo -bserver. that they are not
able t 3 govern thew-ekes And such appears
to be the fa, t 1;1, t return to this prominent
"topic of the week There has been all sorts
of rutnors from Wash,ugton, none, however, very
relish].) One of these IQ to the effect that the
friend , of Mr Fuil,ir will abandon him, and cast
their strength in another direction, for the pur
pose of securing an organization. it is not said
upon whom their force is to be concentrated, but
As it is declared that it. will not be upon the Re
publican nominee, it must be upon Mr Richard
,.on, to prove eflective in prodtiong the result
i4tued at Some sa), that a new man is to he
brou;lit forward by th , Americans, but this will
not m.n.l th e m at ter (tiller: think that SCOW
prowls. .nao w.. be offered by the Democratic
member), but re has nothing of this kind
been manifested as yet It presumed that, as
no good reason exi-t , for abandoning Mr Rich
ard)ln. lie will be adbLred t i by / his frien&
We thiuk there will be no speaker for some
time
—Au"ther evitiPnee of the "reformation . ' in
augurat...l a.: Harrisburg I.4he
'strut! in, ha, rectutly curve t.. the kr, •wletigc of
the pub,i.! It ,ceap. teat stx troxes of at w'
have been taken from the state arsenal at liar
rteburg by one of the keepers, anti, discovered a
few day. ago by jinn r' officer, in a New York
store, in iin , adwa), the proprietor of which al
tha- he tp-ii:ht them of a member elect
yf tt, nu- l ivarim Legi-lature, who, in his
t.itu that he ptireha4(d them from the
eper, under th- li .itf Ih•li they were (+on
demml arm. , lluw r La• it that the antis were
ith,litt•toring purpose..•. but the pre
-I,nt n f the sPa r :ndicate. that the
the r w:.- ro._rel, to turn them
lut,. tn..n• ) pt•ulw : .• itivt-qt,trati•Ju. 6 wevvr,
tuay ttlr At a ditierertt light uron the tnatttr, but
an roe ttp•ant,np• we a , lvi•,t. the Pcflockat t,)
"put n,n , . hut Amenoati, n r7u:,r3
way ..reated New
ork ihe by the detention of the steam
er Northern Light, bt, iirdera from Washington,
-u-picion that part of her cargo and Nissen
gets, wet.. arm:, ammunition and recruits for
Walk r'. republic It appears that
when of the vessel were informed
that -he cull wit -ad until the matter wais
thc) F their —dander up" and swore
-hiiidd nag' .11 -pit. n c l, Sulu
abol,t 4 ~ ' clock the \ u-thern lAyht wan got un
der wt 101 but had n. pr,-,eeeded tar when ,he
wu rrupto , l by nde ( 'utter which fired
nF nor '" the bow•• of the eteamer and
br44 : 111 Let 19. Tw it t,:•r utter:, ale - Jo proceed
ed to .twist pitig the steamer There
were a rparf nrly bet wecn :Lief link young men
uu tp.,ard wh t s e App , aran a tudlk Ated that they
wentcura,uturcrs and uhr f them
r 'Or 4e.h.1 that th,v were each, and 11.,(1 been en
d by Co) lit nth and ethers This .4utu
chary proceedlnz brrugh. the beiligerant owners
to t, rtu and on th, 2601, the Northern Light
was submitted ; the .-arch of the Government
auth..ritter. A I *a.t,,f ii detailed 1, 3
the 'Hector au'i 'apt l'aunee and Lis heuteu.
ants examined the .argt , and the boxes which
W.TE 401 t cattula, powder and
bai Upon examination they were found to
ountain caddies, plows:, shoo., typeA. and a print
ing prem. The acandi was terminated about 2
o'clock P M At 12 she fired her farewell gun
and stood out to sea cdt larr voyage to Nicara
gua
—While at Mackinaw labt .ummer, wa made
the acquaintance of Sir Grown: Simes.,.N, the
Governor of the Hudson Bay Company, then on
his return from his annual trip to their trading
stations In conversation he detailed to us the
plan of an expedition that had been undertaken
to ascertain the truth of the rumor , that traces
of Sir .Iyiis par:: bad been did
covered by Dr tic in the extreme northern lat
itude of the Emiuinaaux country That expedi
tion, we see by the St Paul's papers, has re
turned, and the rumors alluded to are fully con
firmed The St Paul' , F-c" Press says Mr.
Stewart has arrived there from Red River on his
way to Canada, bearing dispatches for Sir Geo
Simpson. containing information of the discovery
of the point where Sir .lohn Franklin and his
party perished It was on the coast opp os ite
Montreal Island Their bones lie buried in the
sand within an extent of twelve miles This is
the fifth winter sins e they perished, and the
drifting sands of that barren region, being in
lat. 641 deg north, have piled in auceest.:ve layers
upon the bone. of these noble and ill fated men
Mr Stewart deserii,os the regi6o as dreary in
the extreme—n .t a blade of grass nor a stick of
timber met the eye No game of any kind could
bi found The Esquimaux, from whom their
information was obtained by signs, pressed their
fingers into their cheeks,and placing their hands
on their stomachs. endeavored to indicate the
manner of their horrible d eath They
were
charged with killing them, but merely an s w ere d
with their signs. It was a very expeditious trip,
it being only thirteen months since the party
left the Red River settlements.
THY DIFFULENCL. — It is generally thought
that the difficulty in Congress is in reference to
the Speaker But really, we think, it is on ac
count of the REEDMIL—Pa , ?ifs, dk relivrapla.
All a mistake; it's "Sam," not Reeder Choke
off the 12th section men, and an organization
will be secured in ten minutes. And here we
night preach you, and yours, a political sermon
about the folly you committed in ':4 in uniting
in the anti-Pope crusade. It was temporarily
irsooessful; but where has it landed you? Let the
four weeks spent in disorganization at Washing
ton answer.
us bashful printer refused a situation in a
printing offiee where females were employed lay
ing that be ROTC' "eery" with girl is hie life.
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The Omens sad lb. Beeliana&
The Gazette has put on the New York Pcat's
spectacles, and has found a mare's gest, and it
cackles over it like a yang pullet over its tirst
egg Th IN grand discovery of our escall,7 Placid
neighbor li nothing more nor leas, than that the
lion. JA the BlicliANAN, in his celebrated Berke
county Harvest Home Letter, in 1847, expressed
himself in favor of extending the Missouri Com
promise, line to the Pacific. That our readere
may und'er-esnd just exactly where the Gazette
i s now , an d where it was in 1847, let us recapit
ulate a limb: of the history of that letter, sad nes
under what circumstances it was written. By
so doing wt can also see whether Mr. Buchanan
does now 'r ever did occupy the platform
of "the present anti-Nebraska party," as boldly
claimed by the Ga2ette In 1847 we were at
war with Nlexico, and the signs of the times
clearly indicated that when peace was secured,
we should receive a large addition to our territory,
and the ultimate admission of such territory into
the l'nion as States, andthe vexed question of
slavery therein, were topics of political diaoussioa
before the people. Mr Buchanan, in common
with a large portion of the Democratic party, in
anticipation of such an accession, and with the
view of forestalling agitation among a class who
lived only upon such food, counseled the country,
in the letter under discussion, in the event of
obtaining the anticipated territory, to extend that
line to the Pacific Ile thought, as we all thought,
that would be the easiest and safest way to
settle the conflicting views of the extremists of
the North and of the South. Bat did the Gazette
and its party accept and act upon that proposition?
Not at all. Peace with Mexico brought with it
the territories of New Mexico and California;
and then the agitation so much feared by Mr. R.
commenced. Gen. Taylor rode into the Presi
dential chair upon its topmost wave. A majori
ty of i'ongress was of the same party, and then
wait the proposition to extend the Missouri line
to the Pacific voted down by the Gazette's party
triends, arid sustained them. It now turns
round, and with the effrontery of apolitical has
lA, claims to be the lawful champion of the Mis
-ouri compromise Why it was not long ago--a
later than 1847—that it was in favor
of applying the Wilmot Proviso to all our terri
tories, in direct contradiction of the terms and
lucent of that same compromise. In fact, the
principles, and almost the language, of the anti-
Missouri compromise clause of the Nebraska-
Kansas bill, were incorporated in the bill estalo
-I.,hilig a territorial Government for Washington
tirritorp. and the Ga:ette's party friends voted
for it, and yet it never uttered a word of eom
p,aint—e,,t a word; and we venture to predict
that it will now attempt to justify it. And there
.- no reason why those principles should be ap
po,d to Waahington, and not applied to Kansas
and Nebraska But to return to Mr. Buchanan's
p His position, as we have before re
m.irked, in l 'W. - , was that the Missouri compro
•hould he applied to all new territory ac
quired from Mexico But was that advice taken?
,t .it all! The Missouri compromise was re
.le,ted The principles of popular sovereignty
- --squatter sovereignty," if you please,—pre
veiled iu California, and was then recognised by
Congress to her admission as a State. It was
recognized by inference In the establishment of
a territorial Government for New Movie°, and
it was directly recognised by language in the
formation of Washington territory. The infer
ence therefor*. i-i legitimate that with the nor
t. u oi the Missouri Compromise by the voice of
Congress, and by the acquiescence of the people
since 1647, Mr Buchanan no longer considers it
an open question Like all the questions of the
past it obsolete, and hence we apprehend that
distinguished statesman will be found in the
L,:-ning campaign bearing aloft the banner of the
Democratic party; and the Gazette can rest as
sured that that banner will have inscribed upon
it, In language not to be misunderstood, acqui
escence in and adherence to the principles of pop
ular sovereignty as incorporated in the Kansas-
Nebraska bill, Such we apprehend, is Mr. B.'s
position now, and there is no inconsistency in it
either He is too wise a statesman to think of
restonug a measure that has been treated as ob
solete by every act of Congress since the date of
hi, letter, now brought up in judgement spinet
him. He is too sagacious a man, let us add, to
entertain for a moment • proposition to res
tore the Missouri Compromise, when the veriest
simpleton in the country, outside of the Gazette
office, knows it to be an impossibility. And
there is not a political novice, we will further
add, who does not know that a proposition to ex
tend this line in 1847 over a territory we expect
.,/ to acquire, is a very different proposition from
that of restoring it, and extending it over terri
tory since acquired, and already admitted
as a State One was feasible, the other is impos
sible' One would perhaps have been just to the
South, and not unjust to the North, for it would
have made two States out of California-ate
slave and the other free—while the other would
be au infraction of the plighted faith of the na
tion, and a virtual denial of state sovereignty.
It will not do for the Gazette to say that it doss
not propose to restore the Missouri Compromise,
and extend it to the Pacific, or to the territories
acquired from Mexico; because, inthat case, Mr
liuchanan's views in 1847, are not legitimate to
the question at issue now. ills was a district
proposition to extend that line to the Node, and
hence has no bearing upon any other proposition.
CLEAItFrELD COUNTT.—The Deisoeniey of
Clearfield have instructed their delepaes to the
4th of March Convention in favor of BUCHANAN
for President. Here is their resolution:
Res°/red, That among the American States
men whose patriotic services have been limits
mental in making for ottr country a name mow/
to none among the nations of the earth, we point
to our own Buchanas with feeling of honest
pride, and rejoice in the unanimity of meatimeat
which now prevails among the Democracy of
Pennsylvania in favcrr of his selection as the
standard bearer of the Democracy in the coated
of 185 ti, and that our delegates to the fourth of
March onveation are hereby iastzaeted to use
all honorable efort, to carry out the epirh of thia
resolution.
They also instructed their representatives in
the Legislature to nee all honorable means to
se
cure the election of liz-Governer Baas = to the
United States Senate, and then posed the fol
lowing resolution:
Rewired, That as the last Legislature failed
to elects Senator of the United Stair, an op
portunity is now aired to fill that place with
sound National Democrat; and that our fellow
citizen, Ex-Governor Bigler, for his bold deism,
of our time honored principles and institutions,
his einkasat abilities and semen, as well as his
sound national and orthodox charester as a
esteems' point to him as the ens that &mid be
selooted
266. The mot moms hi the United SION
Troutv7 to the 26th ult., we 1214074 1 898 79.
Tnitad awe. imataz
On Tuesday ant the annual session of our Le-
gislature commences, and among the first ditties
devolving upon it will be the election of a Sen
ator to fill the massy occasioned by the expira
tion of the term of the Hon. JAMZ. COOPER. A
word then upon the matter now, may not be in
appropriate. The Democrats have a conceded
majority on joint-ballot, and it is evident that,
unless they imitate their Know Nothing prede
cessors of last Winter, and allow personal prefer
ences for men, instead of fidelity to principle,
control their action they will be able to fill the
vacaney at as early day. It is important that
this should be kept in mind, for the people, those
who do the voting, have no personal preferenoee,
and will hold their servants t 3 a strict accounta
bility if they allow such considerations to govern
them. They want no such disgraceful exhibi
tion as that of last winter. They want a Demo
crat in the Senate—one whose antecedents are
right, and whose escutcheon is pure—and it does
not matter, we apprehend, whether he lives at
the extreme Bast, the extreme West, the extreme
South, or the extreme North. Courtesy, per
haps would say, all things else being equal,
that some such Democrat as we have indicated,
from the West should be preferred. That the
West have such, there is no dispute We can
furnish one here who has no superior in the
State; s e aman of tried integrity, of undoubted tal
ent, and unflinching Democracy. We refer of
amuse to the Hon. JAMES TGOMPSON! Then
there is Ex-Governor BIGLER, who, although
now sojourning in Philadelphia temporarily, is
still a cilium of Clearfield, and hence, in filling
out the list of good and true men from the West
from which the Legislhture may choose, his name
and claims should not be overlooked. Allegheny,
too, presents a man in the person of Col MC
CANDLESS, whose election would reflect equal
honor upon the State and the party. Westmore
land, also, claims for one of her eons, Hon. H. D
Fosrza, a place on the list; while Fayette asks
for Gen. J. L. Dawsoo, a fair canvass and an
impartial judgment. From among these distin
guished names, then, we are very certain, if the
Legislature comes together in a proper spirit,
and will sot upon the Democratic doctrine of
"principle not men," that a gentleman will be
chosen whose election will secure to Pennsylva
nia an able representative of all her varied inter
este, and the Democratic party anion and harmo
ny in the future, and the consequent triumph of
its principles and measures. Bit there are dis
tinguished men in other parts of the State upon
whose election, save upon local grounds, there
ought to be no complaints, and, as we have be
fore remarked, location is but a secondary consid
eration. lion. J GLANCY JONES, for example,
the able representative of "old Berke" in the
present disorganized House, would fill the vacant
representation at the other end of the Capital
with equal dignity that he now does his present
seat. Then there is Col. BLCRALEW, the cau
cus candidate of the little band of Democrats in
the Legislature last winter, and Ex-Governor
Poarus, and Judge BLACK, and a dozen more
we could name, upon whose shoulders the mantle
of Senatorial boners could right worthily fall, and
the Democracy of the State and Nation would
hail the choice with approbation. And it is be
cause we have men in all sections of the State
thus eminently qualified for the station that we
think there should be no delay and no strife in
making the selection. This is more important
now than ever before. We are on the eve of the
greatest political contest since that of 1800. Up
on the one side the cohorts, of Black Republican
ism and the followers of proscriptive Know Noth
ingisra are preparing for an onset upon the prin
ciples of the Democratic party. Upon the other
the Democratic party, weakened numerically per
haps for a time by the desertion of a few bigots,
fanatics and camp followers, but stronger than
over in its adherence to its ancient land marks,
and gaining day by day the confidence of the
conservative and patriotic of all parties, is pre
paring to meet and foil the adversaries of the
Constitution, and the enemies of the Union. In
this contest Pennsylvania is expected to play an
important part. "As goes the Keystone State,
,so goes the Union," has become a political max
im. How important, then, that the Democratic
party of the Keystone State should now, when it
is more than likely that itis shout to furnish the
candidate for the Presidency—the standard-bear
er in a contest the result of which we firmly be
lieve is to decide the failure or permanency of
our system of gevernm•nt—should be prepared
to enter the field without a murmur in its ranks,
or an embittered feeling rankling in the breasts
of its leaders. And this result can alone be
achieved by the members of the Legislature ig
noring all personal aspirations in the choice of a
Senator, and cordially agreeing to adhere to the
choice of the majority, whoever it may be,
when that obeses is fairly ascertained. By doing
this, ern shall have a Senator who will fairly re
present the Democratic sentiment of the State,
and tkie invincibility of the party next Fall be
definitely established. In the hands of the pres
ent Legislature, then, this important trust is
confided, and woe be unto those who shall betray
the trust, or waver in their duty.
Tux Brom Bran.--13onse of the opponents
of the Democratic pa rty have been indulging
bright saticigatioas of strife between the friends
of Hon. JAX/SIIII7OILiIIIAN sad 'those of Es-
Vice President DALLAS in this state; but the
sips of the times indicate that they are to be
disappointed. Ilia friends of the latter gentle
man have issued an address "To the Democratic
Elicitors of the United States," in which they
give a sketch of his services, and state the pro
minent assuideratit es that urge a preference for
him as the demons tic candidate for the presi
assay. Thais are pulsated with ability, can
dor, is the right spin it . , and free from disparage
ment of other aumbd.u.s. The address thus al
ludes to the Cincinnati Convention:
"lat our Federman', then, be expressed with
submission to the will. of the greater number,
without &rufous pertiometv oldie disparogaamant
of nay whose prossaMma at 11 thought worthy of
serious cssiiiimasiisa loy say Mellen at the rift!.
Let our representatives is ea .aveatish truly re
prosiest the whole par ty, Dat fralpuou=mrt ss s
of it, sad firmly mare to men lee ail
of "guar moment upo a the altar of Petrie:um"
Mir A sorrisposeart of the flack *assii Goaetee
propose the mime of Framtais P. h'-hiar ,for thet
Pnaideaoh as time agadidate of time il*PsWiessi
Personally, r well r politically, the elation'
of Bi.ta, if snob a thing wen possible, Would
be a striking osstrast. Fuaatoss and Get.
Plum ars two the SlicarleAring ataa we ,Star
saw, while &ant is by all odds the aglisst as r
vs war ass.
Mir k lire hr Osesisa, 8.0., hie desscorm!
the Dellhib sot toe beery. Loss $50,000.
Tim'One Gnat
The Weeidettelf ecereepowaeli of the New
York courier mad Bossruirer aborts did
Democratic peril is COWS" U. igailealled
unpatriotic and discreditable position," sad thug
"they ire now the party of obstruction. They
are is a formidable misority, end bowies so
power to orgsaiui he House, they have used
their numbers and their parliamentary skill to de
feat the honest efforts" those who &re laboring
tei Abet as mita. enter epos the
transaction of the petal') !minim To speak of
suet «edam as *miens, is to apply so is tits
very mildest term of reproof. It is a deliberate
attempt to subvert the Constitation by destroy
ing the legislative branch of the Government
provided by that instrument; for to prevent the
organiution of Congress, is, in the rural Plums to
reduce it to public contempt, to deprive it of
power and respeotability, and gradually to effect
its abrogation." Remarking upon this monstrous
assumption of the Courier arid &Spate!, the
Buffalo Courier very pertinently says it is "sur
prising that remarks such at these should find a
place in journals that are using their every endea
vor to secure the election of a Seward Republi
can to the Speakership of the Howie. Though
the demonists are in a miwority in the House,
they represent the views of a large majority of
the Freemen of the Union, and their course in
maintaining the position they wisely amused at
the first imeembliag e( Congress, meets the ap
proval of every shasedrwt. The democratic party
is not the party et compromises sad temporary
alliances_ The democracy cannot mite, with
even a show of consistency, with either the
Know Nothings or "Republicans" to secure so
desirable an end as the organization of the Howe.
They regard both these parties as enemies to the
inthrests of the country, and will not consent
that they should gain a temporary advantage by
uy complicity of theirs. Let these who make
politics a trade sad principles a matter of emt
tenienee, "fuse," if they Seem; democrats will
do nothing of the s.irt The "deliberate attempt
to subvert the Constitution" has been made by
the opponents of the democratic party, and it will
receive no aid or comfort from the "National
Party of the Union."
We dip
,the following from the Washington
Organ:
IMPUDENCE —We missed one of the New
York lobby °mothers yesterday in the House,
but after the lapse of an hour or two discovered
the 'tingly ellbootteed in the seat of an Intent
member, within else bar! He is said to be an
agent of the New York Central Railroad, which
desires the duty to be taken off railroad iron
We find the above in the Pittsburgh Journal,
one of the most noisy protective papers is the
State, and yet decidedly in favor of BANKS for
Speaker. Now we're willing to make a small
"investment" that this same borer for the "New
York Central Railroad, which desires the duty
to be taken off railroad iron," is also as noisy for
Banks at the Journal. And why shouldn't he
be? Banks is the last Congress was death on
"protection," and especially "protection" to
railroad irop. Verily, are not our Pennsylvania
protective tariff men carrying their principles to
a poor market, when they confide them to S. P.
Banks. But there are some who see in what a
ridiculous light they are placing themselves, and
among them it the Philadelphia News Says
that paper: "The time will come, and that be
fore the nest tiveralliisbection, when these who,
in this B ,ads now either is favor of Mr.
Banks election, or willing, rather than have the
contest prolonged, that he should be sleeted, will
reatise that it has been a sorry tininess. Loco
Focoism, with all its strength, even in its most
powerful days, has never been able, nor ventur
ed to carry the deadweight of Free Trade on its
back in this State. Conscious of its odiousness
to the people, its leaders have always been under
the necessity of professing to be Tariff men. If
the Banksites, under such an assault, as will neat
fall be made upon them as Free Traders, by the
Loco Fooos in our State, will be able to come out
of the contest with anything more than a grease
spot left of them, then we shall be more mistaken
than we ever yet have been. Pennsylvaais is
against Free Trade; and in supporting a Free
Trader, whose votes in Congress show that he is
a foe to our industrial interests, the Pennsyl
vania Oleabelt have ventured upon a Quixotic
experiment upon tits etiolality of their constitu
ents, which will solve itself in a way, we venture
to predict, that but few will very soon pin be
courageous enough to try it over. Fidelity to the
Protective policy has hitherto been the main
strength of the opposition to LOOO Focoism in
this State. Tamely to surrender that oherished
policy, and making the Slavery gnostical para
mount, by voting for a Free Trader for no other
reason than beminsWhe out-Herod's all others in
his opposition to Slavery, may do in emu quar
ters, but we have no idea it ever will in Pensyl
taiga."
A Plan= SPLCIALIAT OF A STILONG MINDED
WONAN.—II is conclusively settled that a strong.
minded woman can discharge a man's duties.—
The Philadelphia hisrairer t of the 19th inst.,
gives an account of a female sailor who has been
arrested on board the ship Janes ley, bound to
Liverpool, which had to put bask because of a
deficiencyher ballast. Ills name is Rasta
&row anuenbspi In Motieow, Mo., in the
month of May, 11119. In 1854 she married, to
a man owned lard, at Lowell, Massaohnesits,
and by hishalms,shild, whisk is now Jiving
with her sister, In Moils Mee husband desert
ed her, and went to es, sad she determined
upon seeking him; so, about eighteen
,months
since, she shipped at Boston as a cook, on board
the skip Jaime Mostgomery, and went to New
Orleans, from theses to Havana, and then to
Boston. At the latter port she shipped On board
the schooner Janes Manner, for Bt. Johns, N.
B , returning to Boston in the same vessel. She
then shipped in the schooner Silver Morn, for
Ptcton, again returning to Boston. The schooner
Dew Drop, being hound on a fishing cruise, she
shipped on board of her, but left her is the Gut
of Canso, and mint on board the brig Villein,
bound to Philadelphia. Oa her arrival at that
port, she took beard at one of the sails balding
houses, and `shipped off en board of the James
Ray, after haring incurred a considerable hoard
bill. Prior to her joining the Jame Ray, she
perforated the duties of a cook and steward on
board the epftlytedll- which ake bad latberkedi
bat always wised in elosiitiag the forembeet,
sad pedantic' wish other duties as usually .fall
to the kid male cooks. That vogue is entitled
to the Presidency of the next Woman's Rights
Convention.
Tear KLOPMUIT Celt.—Weep
Wednesday, that a vacua measly m i lt at
Chicago from Knuth, with the deed body et her
hothead, which Os wee taltiog *at tar burial;
aad that, oa the math, tell wish wrong
waa, NA as thok arrival at Mow thy west
or toetber, Jawing tha deed body at her law
bead is db. diet. Ott it Mai the& the lather
Pat of the awawspas was annwasa, tar Aura
wrialarweadui ib. dawi body es, aid it &milked
thia,ailmea ead Owl awl* with*
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10 4 1011 11W 1.
cra3
lirrip..l 4 i of •
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adj.rnment hieing been' effected until
WedneedisA members stay become placable un
deltbe softenizigittinteces of Christmas Di
and be willing to give up their differences and
unite in the election of Mr Banks to the Speak
ership. Much as the result is to be deprecated,
be is widoubtaily the ablest man named by the
oPrxitim
Fulle' tad his friends still labor under the
miserable hallucination that the Democrats will
in the end come to his support, notwithstanding
the effectual quietus given to all such preten
sions by Use able, manly, and prtriutic abeeoh of
Cobb, of Georgia, on Friday The impudence
on the part of the men who ask Democrats to
vote for Fuller is surpassed only by the silliness
of one or two Democrats who give ear to their
propositions. Much as the Democracy are op
posed to the Republicans and their insane at
tempts to spring fierce egecti4,wal issues upon the
country, the gulf which separates the Democrats
from. the dark lantern Kniiir Nothings ;sax wide,
deep and inapessable Above all, the Demuers•
ey must not be asked to reward the treachery of
Henry M Fuller with the Speakorship; he is
1101.9460 worth that price. If those who call them-
Hives Southern Americans find themselves in a
bad serape, they need not in their misery call
wpow Hercules to help them, but:must get out of
h the best way they can Had they relied
on the National Democratic party, the result in
the House would be very different. The Dem
ocrats most respectfully beg leave to be excused
from relieving them from the ruin which has so
properly overtaken them They offer no alliance
with the Know Nothings of any section, unless,
purged of their heresies, they place themselves
on the platform of the Democratic caucus, and
come right into the Democratic fold 'rhea , are
the terms—no fusion, no coalition with the Know
Nothings
I do not think the Howse is nearer an ormtni
satioi than it was en the Jay of meeting The
hope of the friends of Banks to carry the plural
ity resolution, and thus elect him, has twice tail
ed, and will not perhaps be tried again Some
of the Itepublic.ins are opposed to the adoption
of the rule, and sustain their opposition by the
argument that if they have no majority to elect
a Speaker, they have none for any political pur
poses of legislation. They have made their 'wild
es Ranks, and are apparently resolved to stick
to him to the last gasp, which resolve 'l4 by no
means comfortable to Campbell, of t thio, and
brace of other gentlemen who had nut begun to
despair of their own chances for the Speakership
The Hon. John R. Edie, wuo congratulates
himself on having the especial guardianship and
care of the "great iron interests" of Pennsylva
nia, votes for Campbell instead of Banks, because
the latter is not sound on Protection: Col Edie,
I am told, eowsiders this a "smart dodge," and
expects by his influence, and, of cousre, that of
the aforesaid "great iron interests," to bring the
friends of Banks over to Campbell They will
hardly come. Had the Colonel called on me, I
could have given him a much better excuse for
vutiag against Banks. lie is understood to have
had, spout the memorable year IS4O, a particu
lar aversion to coon skins and bard cider. Op
position to him on that ground would have been
fair and legitimate. But the Tariff! Where's
"Tariff Andy?" Things aro thus at a "dead
leek" among the Know Nothing Republicans,
and the legislation of the country is postponed
by their persowal difficulties, which is a rather
bad beginning for those who boast to be, par ex
cellence, the "rulers of America." PERRY.
CamasAs.—The Senate was not in session
yesterday. In the House the struggle f,r the
Speakership was renewed. A resolution that no
motion for an adjournment should be in order,
until a Speaker was elected, was adopted by a
vote of 1-16 against 86. It amounts to nothing,
being simply a bit of clap-trap and will probably
be rescinded to-day.
In view of the possibility of a longand turbu
lent sessien, Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, proposed
that. Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, be invited to
preside until a permanent. organization shou:d
be effected. The motion was warm.y advocated
by the Democrats and strenuously opposed by the
Bisek Republicans who regarded the movement
as the forerunner of a coalition between the
Know Mothings ami the supporters of the Ad.
ministration. Pending the question on Mr.
Campbell's motion, the House took a recces until
this forenoon.
Daring the evening an immense excitement
prevailed among the various factions, particular
ly the black Republicans, in consequence of Mr
Campbell's movement. It is said the Democrat.
are determined upon bringing about an organi
sation this week, and Bank's friends are equally
determined that be shall be Speaker Such ap
pears to have been the state of affairs at the date
of the last bulletin from the seat of war.
The Weshiigtou correspondent of the Herald
telegraph' under date of last evening "l learn
this evening that an attempt will be made to
throw the Union editors overboard, and ake
either Ihitiasea of Ohio or the editor of the
New York Aroma of Commerce, which has he
fts* a thorough political sheet, and the organ
of the Soft Stoll voila Democracy for Senate
"
A Tltitaraut CASS ON HYDROPHOBIA.—About
!G weeks sines a laboring t man named Cornelius
Warn; a fferman, employed by a farmer on
Clove road, sear Flatbush, had one of his thumbs
bites" by a mall dog on the place. The wound
healed in a few days, and no particular attention
was paid to it, but on Thursday last unmistake
able evidences of hydrophobia were seen, and on
Saturday the unfortunate man was taken to the
King's County Hospital in a state of raving
'sadness, in which oondition he remained fur the
most of the time until Sunday, when nature be
aming completely exhausted he died
When first brought to the Hospital he was se
cured to a bed by strong straps, but these he
broke loose from with the utmost case, and it re
paired the strenth of four able bodied men to
manage him at all. As it was, he succeeded in
biting his sale aurae is the arm through his
mat sleets so as to draw blood. Dr. Turner, of
the Hoepital l his taken the h urn under his charge,
and its sapstas no serious cmsequenees from
the bate.— Nero York Times.
Ng. Two gendeses, of opposite politics, meet
bss,.ose istpured tisf address of some political
ea•beili whoa tie other imiitnantly answered—
"l ate prat! to say, air, *at I atn wholly igno-
Tait of it." "Oh, yes th pro ud of your %no
ibsee, eh, Se" "Yea, I ass, , 3 replied 11 , 0 belli
gerent gentlest*, "sad what then, airy" "Oh,
*Mktg, air, *otitis& oil you haves great deal
Is be proud of, that's a ll .'
Elosternme Ta "Nortaz."—The editor of the
Tiny risen, a day or two before Christmas, very
delisetely hinted to his pativos that anything
they dimmed N have noticed could be placed pre
the aids 1/1016110110 Wet fist et giving offence
either to the aforesaid editostor say of his little
Mks- Is solimppmaii that on the mane day a
pawls heed his threshold aims bouncing
i
'Mild, in and dangly stowed
away n a Wiwi. the gentle hint
assist Away lie pelf* tithe editor's
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she whist
NEW YORh., Dec. 27
11, TOILI
Corm/ km /1( tit. /iris Oktriw•
Mar You, D•oeualor 14, ISIS
There are always sore chords in thagreat mu
sic passages Of life, which thrill through the
whole great heart of the country, watiug the soul
of the villager, as' well as of the citizen, as well '
as some which teach the hearts only of thaw "to
the manor born." One of these great universal
chortle is that which is sounding over the peat Ea
publ ie,from northern Maine to southern Teluts,the
election of a Speaker for the representatives of
the people The great questions at issue, the
contingencies which may result as to the Presi
deocy, the patronage to be bestowed, combine to
render this choice of a presiding officer one of
the most important events of our history. The
statesmen of the age just past have departed.
The stars that are yet to shine, are just rising
Thf. present Congress numbers among its mem
bers those who are to be the leaders of the land,
its saviuurs, or perchance, its betrayers. We haz
ard the assertion that no previous Congress since
the advent of Clay or his eotemporaries has as
setubled at equal amount of brilliant talent, un
displayed es yet thougitit may be. Among its es
lebnties yet to rise, are two men bra and nur
tured
in the same obscure village of Southern
Pennsylvania, remarkable for their abilities, and
still more for their antipodal characteristics: The
one always -4 extreme," the other measuring
his course by the maxim "is meth() tatissi
mes ilia"—the one in the advance of progress—
the other the most cautious of oonservatives. Of
the first we well remember, that when wild and
reeklesis Sophmores exhatuted the village livery
stables of a Saturday for a race along the coun
try pike, his galloway was always ahead of the
field. It is needless to say that he weot his full
buoseyikupun Campbell for Speaker, and now
takes Banks for second best Of the other we
hii've an abiding recollection of a summer day's
journey with him in a gig over the South moun
tain, when he stopped within a few miles of our
destination to have the mare's shoe replaced,
and thereby compelled us into the drenching and
edifying experience of &mountain thunder strom
—he voted for the conservative Faller. Emit'
of them is well laid out-for honorable fame
The civil war 9f the Press, which has jastioom
meneed in spreading the "clash of its resound
ing arms" over the land north of Mason k Dix
on's line. t ‘ i )ur Southern brethren are too chi
valrous to suspect each other - of the taint of bri
beryiand blackmail The publishers are pitch
ing into the Press with charges of corruption and
the chroniclers are unitedly in arms to sustain
the power of their craft Justice probably lies
but ween
'The Preis certainly has arrited to the dignity
of n power in the State, but its leaders must not
make it a despotistu Public opinion may be
led by it, but it must use but silken strings, or
public opinion may rebel
In this connection we notice a remarkable
leading articli• during the put week in a Brook
lyn daily paper Referring to PT. Barnum
and a supposed change in the tide of his success,
it remarks that his good fortune wan due only to
the press, and that his neglect of that engine has
operated against him There is a squint of
black mail about tho article, which should be
repudiated by the types. The press of this city
is certainly in a bad state to control public opin
inn A majority, and we might say a large ma
jority of its reporters and writers are foreigners,
or moustached taPrateurs with foreign predilec
tions. Their daily colleetions of news, and items
generally, are colored by their foreign ideas and
prejudices—many of them are lamentably igno
rant of our history, our feeling and customs, and
yet the:r crude concoctions form the staple of
our daily reading, both in city and country, and
we are insensibly led by intellect such as this.
Our public men are misunderstood and misre
presented, our literature is depreciated, and pri
vate reputation and the dearest interests of our
countrymen are sacrificed by the stilletto of an
imported bravo. A fearless demonstration of
public opinion against this evil is imperatively
demanded.
"Down East" was tangibly before the city the
other day in the persons of some of its best re
presentatives The Awoken veterans were on
parade through our streets on their return from
Washington. The good old stock does not seem
t o hav e depreciated and the old oontinental regi
mentals of their fathers is a tit costume for the
stalwart form of the sons of the Puritans
The Ipirit of pugilism has received new life
from the result of the Baker trial. Two serious
disturbances have been caused this week by the
rampant exultation of the "Morreesey crowd."
Morressey keeps a drinking saloon immediately
opposite the Fifth Ward Police station, but the
Captain has no reports to make of the rows of
the "Belle of the Union." his a Immutable
fact that our police is evidently deteiorating
Briggs and Branch would do the public good
service if they could succeed in causing a change
in the Head of the Department and a reorgani
zation of the force. Mayor Wood is losing his
pregille by backing up the Chief. Agents are
now in demand to sell a cheap biography of May
or Wood through the State and country. Is this
a first step to the Governor's seat? The lotery
policy dealers live in hopes. The business was
never more flourishing in this city than at pre-
ERIE
Ben t
Almost a TiltisaY
===l2ll
Some time since a young man hailing from
Staunton, Va., arrived at this place, where after
remaining a week or two, hi was united in mar
riage to a lady of quite respectable family raid.
ing in this vicinity. For a week or tea days all
"went merry as a marriage bell," until on last
.*:clity night a week, when a stranger dropped
'Jowniat V. I) McDowell's Hotel, hailing also
from ta On Monday morning the stranger
inquired the whereabouts of the lately constitut
ed husband, and on receiving the information
repaired to the house. When he found Me ob
ject of his search, (who it appears had no desire
u) see !limo he told him that his errand was to
revenge the wrongs of a sister who had been be
trayed by him, under promise of marriage. He
then coolly drew from his breast a revolver, and
presented another to the betrayer, telling him
that only by the death of one of them could the
stain on hi. familj's name be wiped away. The
bridegroom, however, lot liking the idea of set
tling accounts by having ein Woe bored is his
earthly tabernacle, refused the peon ilium
wont of "honor " acknowledged the sera, sod
showed such hut:tatting evidences and cowardice,
that lie completely unmanned his fee, who pocket_
ing his revolvers, returned to his hotel, and in a
short time depu ted. Various surmises are still
afloat on the probable result of this romantic af
fair, and among the met, our notion is that the
Virgioian should have "winged his man," or as
least shot him a couple of times in the calf of the
leg.—Fulton Repoblienst.
GE.. Saga—ln response to as invitation
&tan the Shishis Guards ofChicago to he proms
at their annual ball, Gen. Shields, writing from
Yakimalt, Rice county, Minnesota, Mates that it is
impossible for Witco sued, his "whols time sad
rfaii,NOltair at r a maii ill faiMsess•
The Prospect of Peace in R
trope
The New York Courier on,/ hb pr
vete information by the At''. 'o *Lei , It pr,
fames the most perfect relianc«, t..the effect chit
the terms for concluding an immediate p. ace
tweak the Western powers awl Hulls 'etre bee t ,
definitely arranged by Austria, been accr e d
by Russia, have received the assent of the Ea,
peror Napoleon, and have been reluctaail y ,
quiee t ed in by England The terms of p ea , e
dude the protection of Turkey against Lt uaus.
* curtailment of the aggressive tweed
Northern autocrat, the abandonment of til t , c ri
mq
to the Russians, and the stipulation that I l i ,.
Black Sea shall hereafter, forever, be det,,L e d
commerce, and that ne armed vessel ever h t p ,,
misted to float upon its surfac. The
the letter published in the Courier onJ
We hope that its assertions will pr r,
ve
founded, and that the reign of peace a '
established
I,„ •
I think I may venture to &Pout') 'GA: tr.r.
is s strong probability of an early termtatti,,,,
the Russian war I believe that .ku•tr,,, ,
tainly submitted propositions to France sad L I
land for ite eunolusitin, with the
if accepted by them and afterwavii rejectet
Russia, she will immediately put as
hesitancy on the subject, and ioin with d i .
against the Cur.
These propositions, I am da,ured,ret*iveL.Q.
Napoleon's approval, and he expressed
lingoes* to secede to them; end the Bnusli
ernment have somewhet reluctantly, a4l., i , t d L.
poliey
These proposals stipulate—
First, to convert the Black Se into , X 014 ,1
cial one, as a substitute for the thlrd ..f 1 ," 1
four points—excluding forever tile
nation from it, and
Second, the whole course of the bo ut , e.
Mout ha included, to he entirely re,ioestwi r 1-
Russian oontrol
That the Emperor of Russia wdl ac,ridt tJ
propositions can hardly be doubted h i
ing he will preserve the honor of Lie ret
he cannot successfully war with the A
Austria she, ugainst him. The cont..,
ready told fearfully on Hnssis Her t
men and money are nealiy exhanste..
guise it u they may; the / Russian p.0r,!..
English, would hail the return of pea,c,
clamations of delight. Should pawl .
eluded r Lord Palmerston's resignation 4 tt.
miersuip is possible, and iu that Cale, an Itllose
diets settlement of all the existing quest
difference between the l uited Stattiii 4.1
country would probably fui:ow, and eurdia..,..
tions thus be restored among the leading sic
of the earth.
ALMOST A KNow Ni() also uti:
Crockett, Texas, was recenuy d.gging a w.
when it caved in upon hun After tie was -.
tracted from it hii first exclamation was—
came nigh being a Know Noshing then!" fi4l
so' asked hie rescuer "Why, the papers is:
they go into a hole and pull it in after them .
was the reply
ler An explosion of powder, with lisp
results occurred at Columbus, Obit,. filmy
day A party of Gertnaus were ttr- w:og
crackers, for sport in a grucery, wten 32/e f tt•
crackers fell into a keg of powder stanthog
counter. The explosion of the pow ter ,tir tt
house apart, letting the upper fluor .1
the inmates of the grocery The btrreig
room, however, supported it, arid the met, es
gular to relate, escaped with but Aught .oqine
lit FORtiOT TLLAT —Culp Z`LOCILLoa
ten another letter in which be Nlys
"restore the governmeta, ,1 uar ,11:, , v
of Washingtort,to the haudb Atut:riciuuLA
He must have furgAten that Waehiti e 4,,z i
self selected ainuug LI, cabinet, a " , ,- , 17.1
Alexander 111'1,114 , in, a, the first Sec-ettry
the Treasury of the hilted State, V I
PSI Pllatisounts
500,000 STAVES WAITED
THit subscriber will pay ribs Iberian tuata , t ~,, Cat
Ole abort mount oiled and W 1
011 ST•VES,
co( the followi as diatentions, when del, err, n ,:kor
Meet Oak. Had.. 64 lathes Wog, 4 Int. hes to .1t
and j %aches thick
White Oak. , 34 inches lone, 4 ,n , ole, r,jc.
and 14, 14 and I e Incites lbw k
rimers must be of the alms
received.
Erie, Dec IS. tIU.
-- - - -
3.000,000 Peet Labe! Wanted.
WILL pm rash at the hithest ruvee! ^ e,••
luerao4 Meese( Lumber cle, err,' a, v r
Env
1300.000 feet I White Wood Board.,
IMAGO " ta, 3Oa Inches tb lc
WOAD " Spe 0, 11; 0 1 ye 7 , " ' wimp
100,060 ." I Cherry Board.
360,400 • I le, tt. z. 3 I Jr, tics Ash, ll' .re
114,90 u".• t Sycamore Boards,
WNW •• I do du
The above lumber meat all b.- sc, uarc -dc—•
and tree from knots, splits, beatu. al4 drat Au.,
Fain. Dee. :S. VASS —MI e
171EILREOTYPES
LE
$lllOO *.ward `r-Who Will Olaup It
LAST week I °Semi SISSY for au! man c
of Erie who could produce picture, ruperaa to lr
al my ikller)
Thai Reward has Not becit
And Why? Because the boasters know icier 61,114
places kly pictures are pronounced by woe wb. •
tent judger. opener In • II respects to an) srb.ri, ,att ,
produced in tie city or county—and those 114,, seen
Eoci re a fee =Mil nitres , ea, •
The Pictures taken by me are ensure.. .el tea r
bratityui Anion and life-lite appearance, a
aid of a parried gage to iecoilitneed
selves.
ted7;l would therefore caution the t.O • r 0. , •
o e who is rending out pleturs. ol n
}el lay• that the beau can be secured
wforre'--wh.tbamertionisuntrup,
. .
The beet •nd largest sawriteetit of rlNl`) Igl ,
odcred in trte,can be found at •
Breent's Hotel fled Me Reel Howse
Diar RRRRR RAITIOT• fllll be knppiled r t •fe,
eription of Daguerreotype 'Stock nod
New York pricer All order. pronoicv auroaro t,
Fate. Dec 29. 1454 —.2.3 E. 11 5M....
Park kuw between Brow n'• Hotel and the Ree, ,104.
STRAW ZOO
CAME to the farm of the subserber m Rr
township on the fiftioesith inn., a who* b ,
supposed to weigh surge seventy five or
No artificial marks. The owner is requeptel :c 9f
property, pay charges, send take it away
CHARLI'' W W
Washington, Dec. 24, 1855.
Dissorntic•n.
THE partberehip heretofore existing netweet
scribers la the Drug business, wa. rr , ;
by mutual eouseet All person. haring ace , •A•""
ram are requested to call and .y
GEORI , E st - 04
RICH t) ti HE/tRe
THE snbeetiber having purchased the entire :raw
Yr. tiro. Burton to th • Drug and Nevi
will continue the same in his own earns a. :11.
No Reeid Home, Where be will br I.la 'TY
enntieaaoe• of the patronage en liberni'Y oAloor i ` j
old Inn. RICII 1 , 1; HMCO'
Erie, D
c. 29, les.;
Margaret ()marina 1
by ber next friendl No. , \ tfT '`, ' ....'
Meese Bowen, } Alia. 4uhr•ets t- I' 4 : -.
vm. I Petition tiled Mara iv ..
Peter Graham.
.1_
WHEREAS Nlargoret Graham by bet v•it Mew.
Bowes, did oet the 30th day of Horeb orgy t
titioo to our Jadios of th• Court Csinmo° r em
for t " euunly of ILtal praying for mute§ therein P
that sh• might be glivutopti from her isustand ft:
Therefore netios s hereby given to the sce Po?'
ham to be mod appear before our JUdged at r.. •
Court of Common Pleas, then and thrre t
the county aforesaid on the first Mond* , •'
to easwor to the °bares preferred
_
J. KILLPATitit t. 4e4
Ens, Dec. 29,
Jane i.1111)tr 1
by her next friend
it. J. Sibley,
,_Solomon Haybarger.
WHEREAS Jane E. j
fiaybarger by her rri'
J. Sibley ail on the 30th day of April to wog
tides to our Judges of the Court of Couunos
fur the eoenty of Eris praying fur causes Owl"
that she might be divereed halm her buthaol
Haybargor.
Therefore notice is hereby given to the 0. 1 :
Haybarrer to be and appear before our J ud l (at •t
our Court of Common P 1..., then and there to 1:4 0 ; or ,
for the esrunty aforesaid es the first W.o..iay is
sent, to ammo: to the charges preferred. ,•
J. KILLPiTRICh ,: • = '•:
Brio, Doesmiror 26,1965.
NOT DEAD YFT e.*4
BUT r ig" ale Iliad of the I 'visit. at there old P'E` 4 . •
000118 WM fon. with a perfect rush. We
lie boblielbal We hive now in more, a ter, , •
Wastes Tsui.. wile are Meadtw sold n ,g.o
° •
"" ir 10 1 118 0 ot farad Kiri:Km and Parantela, •
as km t Ild„, awl Mose hba wt., De•La i ne., Catbrl:,„
101 l %ad li. M.. tad time iiandalice. HOll ill I
Ltatea elt.tba la ad tc:lt dflannel, VAIL,: 4.,
....,_ llll4 ‘ iNg beloar t tisie out lode It 12 nesdNir
_2; ,
perm MR teldebbeey Of out Idled but we wishpetvcno
say Oat we ane boast to nil droop, Part 1 011,
ikbois's ilmb maw is whom you Wu Ili
ens, Dos. is. uss.—. swig & ersw°
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At,
Alias Subpurna
k Nu. 2j, Novens:.« I"
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